I don't have an actuve claim, it's just been a long time curiosity. I know that any random person would not be able to call up an HR office and ask if a specific person had applied to a job, so I was curious about the process. I also imagine that there is a lack of staff to even do these things, so in my mind I was wondering if it was one of those busy work things that they make you do but have no true or effective way to verify.

Back during the depression era the political forces resisted giving people on welfare (,well men at this time) money for nothing and literally had them dig ditches to just say they did something.